310 results about this entity
Period: 16 Feb 2007 - 30 Apr 2024
News
ATM and POS-based card fraud are on the retreat in Europe, thanks in large part to technological advances such as EMV, but online losses remain stubbornly high, according to figures from the ECB.
17 July 2013
The European Central Bank (ECB) has warned that many companies are leaving Sepa migration too late, leaving themselves open to serious problems when the February 2014 deadline arrives.
21 March 2013
European banks and broker-dealers are lagging in their understanding of the impact of the European Central Bank's plans for harmonising settlement under the Target2Securities platform, with migration costs for back offices estimated at anywhere between seven million euros and EUR27 million.
06 March 2013
The European Central Bank has signed a three year deal to roll out Thomson Reuters' Eikon desktops across the ECB and 18 participating national central banks.
04 March 2013
US lawmakers are putting together a bill designed to make it harder for Iranian firms to use the European Central Bank's Target2 cross-border payments system, according to press reports.
22 February 2013
The European Central Bank has outlined plans to improve the security of Internet payments, requiring firms to beef up their customer authentication processes.
31 January 2013
European depository Clearstream plans to pass on to its customers an estimated EUR30 million in development costs for migrating to the European Central bank's Target2-Securities (T2S) system.
20 December 2012
The European Central Bank may be forced into a rethink of the charging structure for the Target2Securities settlement platform as weak trading in Eurozone markets hits previously optimistic volume assumptions.
04 December 2012
The growth of virtual currency schemes such as Bitcoin and Second Life's Linden Dollars, could have a negative reputational impact on central banks due to their inherent instability, warns the European Central Bank.
30 October 2012
Link Up Markets, a consortium of 11 European central securities depositories (CSDs), has selected financial messaging network Swift to provide connectivity to Target2-Securities, the new pan-European settlement infrastucture under construction by the European Central Bank.
24 October 2012
The social costs of making retail payments in the EU amounts to EUR45 billion, or nearly one percent of the combined GDP of the 13 member states surveyed by the European Central Bank.
01 October 2012
More than 90 billion non-cash payments were made in the EU last year, nearly five per cent up on 2010 thanks to rising use of credit and debit cards, according to European Central Bank figures.
10 September 2012
The European Central Bank's plans to develop a common framework for securities settlement across Europe have been boosted by the agreement of three Euroclear central depositories in Belgium, France and The Netherlands to participate in the scheme.
12 June 2012
Nine central securities depositories have signed up to participate in the European Central Bank's controversial Target 2 Securities (T2S) platform, which is intended to streamline securities settlement across the Eurozone.
08 May 2012
The European Central bank has issued a set of recommendations to promote the security of payments made over the Internet.
20 April 2012
Europe's central banks have awarded the two Target2Securities (T2S) connectivity licenses to Swift and a consortium made up of SIA and Colt.
09 January 2012
The European Central Bank is to offer 'early bird' incentives to central securities depositories that sign up to the Target 2 Securities (T2S) platform, as the controversial project to streamline the Euro area's securities settlements systems reaches a critical make-or-break stage in its development.
29 November 2011
Somebody at the European Central Bank must have a warped sense of humour. Amid desperate calls for the ECB to step in and do more to help alleviate the euro zone crisis, social media wonks at the bank turned to Twitter to trumpet the arrival of an important new monetary policy game for the iPhone and iPad.
17 November 2011
Financial stability within the EU is at risk unless decisive and swift action is implemented by all authorities, according to a warning issued by the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), the EU's super-watchdog.
21 September 2011
The ECB has called on central securities depositories (CSDs) to 'efficiently reshape' their IT infrastructure in order to integrate to the T2S platform, its proposed pan-European settlement service which has encountered further delays amid foot-dragging by CSDs and protracted arguments over costs and pricing.
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